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- Library Collection RecordThe Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is one of the world's largest artesian water reservoirs, and perhapsarid Australia's most important water resource. GAB springs and soaks provide crucial…Publication Date 2004
- Water reservoirs
- mining
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordDeclining and irregular supplies of naturally occurring sandalwood have led to increased interest inplanting sandalwood either in small lots on farms, or as investment holdings in larger schemes.…Publication Date 2004
- Farms
- parasites
- Acacia acuminata
- Santalum spicatum
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's Rangelands include the Arid Zone, occupying 70 percent of the continent, and native, or natural pastures in the higher rainfall districts. This paper is concerned with the latter…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dumaresq River
- Gwydir River
- Macintyre River
- Namoi River
- New South Wales
- Northern Tablelands
- water yield
- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff was recorded from small plots situated in the mulga rangelands of Queensland. Even small falls of rain ( <15 mm) produced runoff equivalent to over 50% of the rain. Plant tussocks…Publication Date 2014
- Amelorating effect
- Australia
- plant cover
- Queensland
- rainfall
- runoff
- Library Collection RecordExplorers records of inland Australia indicate that much of today's pastoral zone was subject to wind and water erosion before the lend was subjected to domestic stock. Australia's…Publication Date 2014
- arid land degradation
- Australia
- erosion
- pastoral regions
- Library Collection RecordAustralian Rangelands users go into the 1980's in trepidation. Firstly they are the victims of a vicious circle that has been with us since "indexation" was brought in. The escalating…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- co-exist
- indexation
- trepidation
- Library Collection RecordThe amount and type of labour used on pastoral properties in the north east of South Australia is examined. Two different strategies in the amount of labour employed to handle the same number of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Labour
- Northeast of South Australia
- pastoral properties
- Library Collection RecordSeveral pasture types in central Australia are undergoing important changes. Trees and shrubs are increasing on some alluvial soils. Acacia, Cassia, Eremophila and Eucalyptus species form locally…Publication Date 2014
- Acacia
- Cassia
- Central Australia
- Eremophila
- Eucalyptus
- potential problems
- regeneration
- shrub
- Tree
- Library Collection RecordThe European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, was the last of the feral mammals to reach Central Australia. The rabbit had reached the N.T. border from NW South Australia in small numbers by 1901 (…Publication Date 2014
- abundance
- Australia
- Central Australia
- distribution
- European Rabbits
- Northern Territory
- Oryctolagus cuniculus
- rabbits
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordFire occurs infrequently in Australia's most extensive plant community, the mulga lands (see map 3, Moore 1970) . Under present management, the average interval between fires would be in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- controversial
- Eastern Rangelands
- fire
- Mulga Communities
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe pre -settlement fire regime had a major influence on vegetation. Pastoral activities significantly modified the fire regime by altering the vegetation, the suppression of wildfires and deliberate…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- control
- prescribed burns
- western New South Wales
- wildfires
- Library Collection RecordThe Problem of Woody Weeds Woody weeds ( "scrub regrowth ") are the main cause of reduced productivity over large areas of western N.S.W. There are many genera and species involved in the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- chemical control
- western New South Wales
- woody weeds
- Library Collection RecordThe expansion of cropping into pastoral country of south -west New South Wales is discussed, along with an examination of the types of country involved. Bare fallowing is a practice necessary in…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cropping
- marginal lands
- Southwest New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe mitchell grass pastures of northern New South Wales are economically important to the grazing industry and occur mainly in the 375 mm to 475 mm annual rainfall zone. Expansion of the wheatbelt…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- cultivation
- Grazing Industry
- Mitchell grass
- Northern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe use of a seed coating to supply buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) seedlings with adequate phosphate for rapid growth on infertile, acid red earth appears practical. The concept may also apply to…Publication Date 1981
- Australia
- buffel grass
- infertile soils
- Phosphate fertilizer
- Library Collection RecordDespite increasing demand for landholders to place a higher priority on managing for conservationoutcomes, it has not typically been economically viable for landholders to actively conserve part or…Publication Date 2004
- economics
- incentives
- production outcomes
- Library Collection RecordAlternative land management options for the rangelands have important implications for Australia'snatural resources - and the communities and industries that depend on their use. The Bureau of…Publication Date 2004
- assessment
- beavers
- production assets
- Library Collection RecordArid vegetation is subjected to more or less frequent fire, drought, sporadic flooding events andgrazing.Whilst fire, drought and grazing have been the subject of considerable research, little…Publication Date 2004
- fires
- drought
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThis study compared habitat structure and species richness between grazed and ungrazed breakawayfootslope thickets in the arid shrublands of Western Australia.Mobile or more transient…Publication Date 2004
- habitats
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordBuffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is a perennial tussock grass native to Africa, India and Asia with awide naturalized distribution in Australia. In central Australia it has spread widely from…Publication Date 2004
- distribution
- Impact assessment
- biodiversity conservation
- Library Collection RecordThe Mulga Land Biogeographic region represents a significant proportion of Australia's rangelandsand is a microcosm of the biodiversity and production related issues faced by rangeland…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- production
- land management
- vegetation
- South-West Queensland
- Library Collection RecordPrior to European pastoral settlement in the semi -arid and arid hinterland of Australia around 140 yearsago, the mitika or burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur) had the widest mainland distribution…Publication Date 2004
- pastoral society
- groundwater
- semi-arid
- Library Collection RecordThe tropical savannas of northern Australian are characterised by high climatic variability, withcorresponding impacts on annual resource availability. The native biota is adapted to these patterns,…Publication Date 2004
- cattle
- Rainfall patterns
- forage
- north-eastern Queensland
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